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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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